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The Vikings team ownership is getting about half a billion dollars in public money for a new football stadium, including $60,000 from the project’s budget to store dirt on parking lots that Zygi Wilf owns near the stadium site in Minneapolis.

One of the biggest building demolition projects Minnesota has seen since the mid-1990s is going to a Michigan company that was the fourth-lowest bidder and was fined 15 years ago for environmental violations in the Twin Cities.

The Minnesota Legislature may yet extend a program that loosened property tax rules to stimulate construction and development — though the legislation in its present form does not require reporting on how many jobs are created.

State and local officials are stretching to meet the $6 million that Emerson Electric Co. is requesting if it is to transform most of a half-finished 500,000-square-foot Shakopee building into the latest Minnesota plant for its Rosemount subsidiary.

The construction manager for the new Vikings stadium, which could be named this week, has an option to self-perform some of the work “without soliciting competitive bids” if necessary to keep the project on track, according to the Vikings stadium law.